Subversive Witness Quotes

“When injustice manifests itself in every aspect of a nation’s life, we necessarily infer that the structures of violence are being condoned by the authorities or by influential persons such as rulers, prophets, priests, and the wealthy.”
― Dominique DuBois Gilliard, Subversive Witness: Scripture's Call to Leverage Privilege

“Paul and Silas prophetically demonstrated that privilege is something Christians are called to steward, not exploit for selfish”
― Dominique DuBois Gilliard, Subversive Witness: Scripture's Call to Leverage Privilege

“God wants us to hate what God hates. God invites us into a shared fury, but only the kind that we creatures can handle.”
― Dominique DuBois Gilliard, Subversive Witness: Scripture's Call to Leverage Privilege

“privilege is stackable, so is oppression.”
― Dominique DuBois Gilliard, Subversive Witness: Scripture's Call to Leverage Privilege

“Those with privilege have the authority to tell, alter, and erase history.”
― Dominique DuBois Gilliard, Subversive Witness: Scripture's Call to Leverage Privilege

“Truth and reconciliation are not simultaneous. They are sequential. Tell the truth first, and it’s the truth that motivates you to understand what it will take to recover, repair, endure—to reconcile.”
― Dominique DuBois Gilliard, Subversive Witness: Scripture's Call to Leverage Privilege

“In Rwanda, no one who comes there is allowed to spend time there without hearing about the genocide. In Germany, there is a commitment to remind people about the pain and suffering of the Holocaust. In the United States, it is the opposite. Not only are we not committed to telling [the] truth about slavery, lynching, and segregation, we have actually erected an iconography about a false story: how grand and glorious the 19th century was; how honorable the architects and defenders of slavery were; how fantastic it was to live in the first half of the 20th century; and how noble these elected leaders were while preaching segregation forever, or war.”
― Dominique DuBois Gilliard, Subversive Witness: Scripture's Call to Leverage Privilege